The shirt Diego Maradona wore when scoring the ‘Hand of God’ purpose on the 1986 World Cup has offered for a staggering $A12.4 million.
The charge is the very best ever fetched for a chunk of sports activities memorabilia.
It was offered to an nameless purchaser by auctioneer Sotheby’s at a web based public sale this week.
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Maradona scored two targets within the shirt within the 1986 World Cup quarterfinal as Argentina knocked out England in Mexico Metropolis.
Each targets are among the many most well-known in world soccer — however for vastly totally different causes.
The primary was controversially allowed, deemed to be a header though it was actually off the fist of Maradona, who lept and knocked the ball previous England keeper Peter Shilton.
The purpose earnt its identify after Maradona defined that it was scored “just a little with the top of Maradona, and just a little with the hand of God”.
Maradona’s second purpose noticed him accumulate the ball in his personal half and nearly dribble previous the complete staff to attain.
In a 2002 ballot of 340,000 followers throughout 150 international locations, it was voted the purpose of the century.
Former England midfielder Steve Hodge owned the shirt for 35 years having swapped with Maradona on the finish of the sport.
It was then loaned to the Nationwide Soccer Museum in Manchester the place it was stored for 20 years.
An unidentified purchaser then bought it for £7,142,500 ($A12.4m), beating the earlier document value for sports activities memorabilia, which was for the manifesto that started the fashionable Olympics that offered for $US8.8m ($A12.3).